MOBILE, Ala. – Since 2020, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District Mobile Harbor Project, and its partners have sought to deepen and widen the Mobile Harbor Channel by five feet from the Gulf of Mexico through Mobile Bay and into Mobile Harbor. The entrance channel through the Gulf is being deepened from 45 feet… Read More
NORTH BERGEN/LYNDHURST, NJ – The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) have reached tentative agreement on all items for a new six-year Master Contract. The two sides agreed to continue to operate under the current contract until the union can meet with its full Wage Scale Committee and schedule a ratification… Read More
The Board of Public Works approved a $75 million contract Wednesday to hire three firms that will oversee construction management services on the Francis Scott Key Bridge, as the replacement project gets under way in earnest this spring. The companies, a consortium calling itself Bridging Maryland Partnership, will be responsible for planning, engineering, surveying, construction… Read More
A local leader noted several key issues for the district at a business-focused community meeting this week, and highlighted replenishing the sand on local beaches and undergrounding utilities along Laguna Canyon Road as top priorities. The Laguna Beach Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee held their regular meeting via Zoom on Thursday (Jan. 9) with… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposes borrowing from sand-rich Wildwood and Wildwood Crest to give to sand-poor North Wildwood. But Wildwood and the Crest say they need their very wide beaches. The beaches of Wildwood are so wide that in summer, the city runs a taxi service, John Deere Gator, over the sand to… Read More